Eleanor+Roe


 * SUMMARY: "Eleanor," age 20, died in 1973 from abortion complications.**

"Eleanor" is one of the women Life Dynamics names on its "Blackmun Wall" of women who died from safe and legal abortions.

Eleanor was 20 years old and 19 weeks pregnant when she underwent a [|saline abortion] in 1973.

She suffered from amniotic fluid [|embolism] and developed a clotting disorder, causing her death.

Source: Life Dynamics "Blackmun Wall", citing “Fatal Pulmonary Embolism During Legal Induced Abortion in the United States from 1972-1985,” Lawson, Herschel W., MD, Atrash, Hani K., MD, MPH, Franks, Adele L., MD, //American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology//, Vol. 162, No. 4, April 1990, p. 986-990

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